From The Times of India: China plans to invest about USD 2.63 billion to protect the fragile eco-system on the Tibet plateau, an official said as the glaciers in the remote Himalayan region were shrinking at an alarming rate. The plan covers a dozen projects on protection and construction of eco-system on the Tibet plateau […]
Read MoreWhile Shanghai plans to develop wetlands, other wetlands are drying up. From AP via MSNBC: Less water flows down China’s two biggest rivers now than 40 years ago because global warming is drying up the wetlands that feed them, a state news agency reported Monday, citing Chinese scientists. Xinhua News Agency said scientists of the […]
Read MoreFrom The Times of India: China plans to invest about USD 2.63 billion to protect the fragile eco-system on the Tibet plateau, an official said as the glaciers in the remote Himalayan region were shrinking at an alarming rate. The plan covers a dozen projects on protection and construction of eco-system on the Tibet plateau, […]
Read MoreFrom China Watch: As greenhouse gas emissions erupt with the rising consumption of fossil fuels, the world’s highest plateau keeps sending alerts to the planet. This year, Tibet saw its third warm winter in the last seven years, with an average temperature of minus 3 degrees Celsius, up 1.4 degrees from the historical average of […]
Read MoreFrom Zee News International: China has claimed that the Qinghai-Tibet railway, the world’s highest, has had no adverse effects on the surrounding environment and wildlife as accused by some pro-Dalai Lama activists. The landscape, lakes and the frozen earth are all well preserved and the wildlife’s migration also remains unchanged after trains started plying through […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily: Since the opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway on July 1 last year, Tibet has witnessed a rapid growth in tourism. In the first quarter of this year, it received 116,000 visitors, up 15.8 percent on the same period last year, the Tibet regional tourism bureau said. Tourism income during the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China has created artificial snow for the first time in Tibet to head off possible drought, Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday, months after experts warned of melting glaciers in the Himalayan region. The Tibet meteorological station had performed a “successful artificial snowfall operation” last week in northern Tibet, about 4,500 meters above […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via Beijing Review (photo: snow-capped Qinghai-Tibet rail line, via flickr.com): Glaciers in China have shrunk by 3,248 square kilometers in the past 40 years, according to a new analysis. The area of glaciers has shrunk by 5.5 percent since the 1960s and the volume has dwindled by 389 cubic kilometers, about seven percent […]
Read MoreFrom Spero News: The Qinghai-Lhasa railway line, much vaunted by Beijing as a tool to develop the territory’s economy, will be used to strip the area of its vast mineral riches to the benefit of far-away industries. Recent finds show Tibet is a mining company’s dream, but many fear that development won’t bring much prosperity […]
Read MoreA CNNMoney.com report reveals that construction of the new Tibet-Qinghai railway follows secret seven-year, $44 million survey project that discovered major resource deposits across Tibet: In 1999 more than 1000 researchers divided into 24 separate regiments and fanned out across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, geologically mapping an area the size of California, Texas and Montana for […]
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